Watering-pot



. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE F. MCINTOSH, OF HALLOWELL, MAINE.

WATERlNG-POT.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, GEORGE FRANCIS MoIN- TOSH, of Hallowell, in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have invented a new and 5 lmproved Watering-Pot, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the convenient changing of the delivery-noz-v zles of the pot and prevent waste of water in supplying potted plants.

. The invention consistsiu a watering-pot provided with a closed top, upper and lower orifices to receive changeable nozzles, and a filling aperture and funnel on the rear above the I 5 handle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a cross-sectional elevation of my improved watering-pot, showing the nozzle. attached to the upper end of the same. Fig. 2 is a side elevatiouof the same, showing the upper aperture closed and the sprinkler attached to the bottom of the front.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The upper part of the watering-potA is contracted to form an aperture, B, at the extreme upper end, which aperture is threaded for the purpose of attaching a long nozzle, 0, with a bend or inclined part, D, at the front end to the pot. The upper part of the pot A is pref-- erably so contracted that the aperture B is near the front of the pot. The pot A is provided with, an aperture, E, on the rear side for SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,194, dated August 2, 1881.

Application filed December 31, 1880. (Model.)

filling it with water, and a fuunel-shaped-cup, L, is attached to the pot around this aperture 3 E to guide the water into it. The pot A is further provided with a screw-aperture,'F, near the bottom of the front of the pot, and this aperture is closed by means of a Safewplug) G' 4- If the pot is to be used to water plants that cannot be reached conveniently-as, for instance, those in the rear rows of hot-housesthe pot is used with the nozzle 0 attached, as

shown in Fig. 1; but it the leaves of plants 5 upper and lower apertures, B F, to receive changeable nozzles, and a filling aperture and funnel, E and L, in the rear side of the pot, 60 above the handle M, as set forth.

GEORGE FRANCIS MCINTOSH.

Witnesses:

JOHN YOUNG, A. F. MORSE. 

